The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Events Retold In Brief Para
graphs for the Weekly Sentinel.

April.
The Emperor of Brazil is reported to be
seriously i'll.
The swIss village of Sis was entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
Chicago hod-carriers demand an increase
of cents an hour.
Resr Admiral Boggs is reported dying at
New Brunswick, n. J.
The italian Government denies the re-
ported battle in Soudan.
Wheat in the Chicago market, Thursday,
closed at 81 cents for May.
The Illinois House passed q bill TO pro-
hibit baseball playing on Sunday.
An English syndicate has purchased the
Mulattos mine in Mexico for e660. 600.
A membership in the Chicago Board of
Trade changed hands recently at s., 900.
The decrease in the public debt for April
is estimated at $12. e90. 600 to s15,000,0O0.
Editor O'Brien sailed for Canada on his
mission against Governor General Lans-
downe.
John A. Logan, Jr., and his bride have
returned to Youngstown, Ohio, from their
wedding tour.
Dan Lamont bad a mysterious confab
with Governor Hill, at the Hoffman House,
New York, Saturday.
The Hungarian Primate is about to pre-
sent to the Pope gold chalice equal in
weight to $50. ducats.
The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to
restrict the right of aliens to acquire real
and personal property.
A lad named Defreitus, who recently
leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, was sent
to prison for three months.
The New York Assembly passed the rail-
T0ad c0rn agi0r hill for the HEATING of
passenger coaches by steam.
The Grand Jury of Kane County, Illinois,
has indicted Arthur Terry, of Aurora, for
the murder of his wife by poison.
The schooner Flying Scud was recently
! lost off the coast of Alas ks, with the owner,
| captain and fourteen native hunters.
| Milo H. Dakin, member OF the Michigan
| House, having been convicted of soliciting
brides, was expelled by unanimous vote.
William Harrison, ninety seven years of
| age, near relative of the president,
! died Thursday on farm near Kalamazoo.
The Wabash round-house at Des Moines,
| containing thirteen engines, was burned
| Wednesday evening. The loss may prove
| to be S125, 600.
The Budget Committee of the Reichstag
adopted all the credits asked but one, being
convinced that war with France can not
be long postponed.
At Racine, Friday, mail carrier discov-
cred Mrs Michael Brown on the verge of
dissolution. with dead child lying on
the bed beside her.
DR.. G. n. Hewitt, president of the Min
nesota Board of Health, declares positive
ly that there is not case OF pleuro.pneu-
monia in the State.
Over 200 men are employed in the mines
at Golden City, Ark. The ore yields from
fifteen to eighteen ounces OF COLA and eight
ounces Of silver to the ton.
At Coldwater, Mich, Thomas Johnson
fatally shot George Gardiner, fired twice at
Mrs. Gardiner and killed himself. The
woman was formerly his wife.
Peter Meyer, residing few miles north
of Madison, Wis, has within few day
lost seven children by scarlet fever. Mrs
Meyer is likely to lose her reason.
The marriage of Father Vaudry, in
charge of a Catholic church at Bator
Rouge, was followed by divorce to th'
wife on the ground OF abandonment.
Charles Atkinson, the founder of Moline
ILL.,, and proprietor of the first stage lin
between La Sale and Rock Island, die
last week, at the age OF seventy-nine.
Schnabeles received an ovation upon hi
return home. He afterward proceeded u
Paris to be examined by the Foreign Office
1t is said he will be retired on pension.
at the City of Mexico, on Thursda
evening, bull fight was given by means @
electric lights. President Disz and severa
members of his Cabinet were in attend
arce.
There is authority for the sietement tina
the Civil Service Commissioners founC
nothing OF consequence in their investiga
ton OF the Chicago custom-house and post
office.
DR., W, 7. Northrup, of Haverhill, Ohio
an ardent advocate of local option, was OF
Wednesday waylaid and killed by saloon
keeper named Mccoy and his brother anC
nephews.
The liquor bill presented in the Leglsla
ture of Michigan makes no distinction be
tween beer and whisky, fixes the price of {
license at $500, and requires the closing o
saloons at 8 p. m.
The estate of the late Alexander Mitch
ell, of Milwaukee, is estimated at from
$15,OO0,000 to $25, 900, 900. His only son i
the principal heir. The public bequest
aggregate $4,000.
The bodies of three negroes, brothers
named Sylvester, were found hanging to
tree near Proctor, w. Va, Saturday. Eacl
bore plscard stating that they had beer
lynched for stealing.I
John d. Evans, late treasurer of Cole
| circus, was buried last week at Lincoln, ii
linois. He was graduate Of the law de
partment of the Michigan University. Hi
estate is valued at 100000.
Michael Neyses, until recently postmas
ter at Marbach, Prussia, appropriated 5000
marks and made his way to Chicago, wher,
be was recently captured by Pinkertor
operative, after a long chase.
An eccentric character of Pittsburg
named Marker Rush, died in the poor
house Friday. He was well known as
hotel proprietor, and not many years ago
possessed $500, 600 worth of property.
Competition by the Grand Trunk Line
led the Indianapolis and st. Louis Road tc
return to the pass system for shippers o.
live stock, on the ground that men in
charge are virtually employees of the rail
way.
The Governor of Kentucky, at the sug
gestion of Judge Jackson, placed severa
companies of militia on guard at the jail
Friday night to prevent the lynching o.
the negroes who assaulted Jennie Bow
| man.
The articles presented to General Grant
on his tour of the world are now being
placed on exhibition at the National Mu,
scum in Washington. The collection oil
japanese gold coins is alone valued al
$1,000.
| On the Chicago Roard of Trade Wednes.